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3 ______________ $Date: 2000/03/23 23:19:12 $
7 o OpenSSL 0.9.5a: Under development...
8 0.9.5a-beta1 is available.
9 sunos-gcc - failed (ssize_t)
10 ultrix-gcc, ultrix-cc - failed (ssize_t)
11 sco5-cc - bc fails in test
12 VC-Win32 (MSVC6SP3, nasm) - failed (fixed)
13 FreeBSD-elf (i686-pc-freebsd3.2)- failed (fixed)
14 HPUX (hpux-parisc-cc w/ +02) - passed
16 solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
17 0.9.5a-beta2 is available.
20 FreeBSD-elf (i586-pc-freebsd3.2)- passed
21 solaris-sparcv9-cc - passed
22 solaris-sparcv9-gcc - passed
25 o OpenSSL 0.9.5: Released on February 28th, 2000
26 o OpenSSL 0.9.4: Released on August 09th, 1999
27 o OpenSSL 0.9.3a: Released on May 29th, 1999
28 o OpenSSL 0.9.3: Released on May 25th, 1999
29 o OpenSSL 0.9.2b: Released on March 22th, 1999
30 o OpenSSL 0.9.1c: Released on December 23th, 1998
36 o CA.pl patch (Damien Miller)
40 o Steve is currently working on (in no particular order):
41 Proper (or at least usable) certificate chain verification.
42 Private key, certificate and CRL API and implementation.
43 Developing and bugfixing PKCS#7 (S/MIME code).
44 Various X509 issues: character sets, certificate request extensions.
45 Documentation for the openssl utility.
49 o non-blocking socket on AIX
50 o $(PERL) in */Makefile.ssl
51 o "Sign the certificate?" - "n" creates empty certificate file
55 o internal_verify doesn't know about X509.v3 (basicConstraints
58 o The Makefile hierarchy and build mechanism is still not a round thing:
60 1. The config vs. Configure scripts
61 It's the same nasty situation as for Apache with APACI vs.
62 src/Configure. It confuses.
63 Suggestion: Merge Configure and config into a single configure
64 script with a Autoconf style interface ;-) and remove
65 Configure and config. Or even let us use GNU Autoconf
66 itself. Then we can avoid a lot of those platform checks
67 which are currently in Configure.
69 o Support for Shared Libraries has to be added at least
70 for the major Unix platforms. The details we can rip from the stuff
71 Ralf has done for the Apache src/Configure script. Ben wants the
72 solution to be really simple.
74 Status: Ralf will look how we can easily incorporate the
75 compiler PIC and linker DSO flags from Apache
76 into the OpenSSL Configure script.
78 Ulf: +1 for using GNU autoconf and libtool (but not automake,
79 which apparently is not flexible enough to generate
83 o The perl/ stuff needs a major overhaul. Currently it's
84 totally obsolete. Either we clean it up and enhance it to be up-to-date
85 with the C code or we also could replace it with the really nice
86 Net::SSLeay package we can find under
87 http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html. Ralf uses this package for a
88 longer time and it works fine and is a nice Perl module. Best would be
89 to convince the author to work for the OpenSSL project and create a
90 Net::OpenSSL or Crypt::OpenSSL package out of it and maintains it for
93 Status: Ralf thinks we should both contact the author of Net::SSLeay
94 and look how much effort it is to bring Eric's perl/ stuff up
98 o The EVP and ASN1 stuff is a mess. Currently you have one EVP_CIPHER
99 structure for each cipher. This may make sense for things like DES but
100 for variable length ciphers like RC2 and RC4 it is NBG. Need a way to
101 use the EVP interface and set up the cipher parameters. The ASN1 stuff
102 is also foo wrt ciphers whose AlgorithmIdentifier has more than just
103 an IV in it (e.g. RC2, RC5). This also means that EVP_Seal and EVP_Open
104 don't work unless the key length matches the fixed value (some vendors
105 use a key length decided by the size of the RSA encrypted key and expect
108 o ERR_error_string(..., buf) does not know how large buf is,
109 there should be ERR_error_string_n(..., buf, bufsize)